C K Ranganathan

Ranganathan is the chairman and managing director of CavinKare.



Want to know, what Chik & CavinKare mean? Rediff has a good coverage of interview with Ranganathan. Read it out here.



As told to Sify:

I did not feel anything about riding a bicycle after having got used to cars.

Read it here.

Sarath Babu

Sarath Babu is from IIM, Ahmedabad. He was in media for rejecting offers from big companies to start one on his own. Well! He founded "Food King Caterers" out of Ahmedabad & got it expanded to Chennai. He acknowledges that the brand "IIM" gave him a good lift-off for his venture. He had proved that big-brands has great-values. Jumping-in to kickstart a business right after college should have been tough. But this bold mindset & compulsion came from his childhood perils.

Rediff has a good coverage of his whole life. Read it here. One can hear such a story only in movies or novels. It feels good that its from a real life.

Sarath encourages youngsters to become entrepreneurs, so they could provide jobs to other people. Though it sounds similar to earning money by writing a book titled "How to generate money"? >:O) He also tells children, "It does not cost 'money' to dream".

His inspiration is his mother. She had an understanding of what education can do to a person's life. She sold idlis on the pavements of Chennai to educate her son. During daytime, she worked to prepare mid-day meal at the school. In the evenings, she taught at the government's adult education programme.

Sarath recalls, "For kids living in a slum, idlis for breakfast is something very special."

Nothing more can lucidly state his financial position.

Our take: There are always people to Inspire. Lets make best use of them!

After a StandStill

Startup Starters went inactive for a while. Now back with some updates:

• Blogger's beta update to be mainstream.

Blogger is taking too long a time to integrate its Beta version. We can't wait, our blood is on boil.

• Template changes.

New Template has been incorporated.

• Inclusion of entrepreneurs without web-blogs.

Yeah! We'll include them as we go by.

• Guest bloggers.

We have a guest. Check out "Authors" in the sidebar. In case you are interested. Please contact us.

• Formalizing a logo.

Logo is Ready. Need to add some flesh with colors.

• more interactivity with readers.

You can comment & prove this. >:O)

On a Standstill

Start-up Starters will be motionless for a few weeks from now. It is basking for

• Blogger's beta update to be mainstream.
• Template changes.
• Inclusion of entrepreneurs without web-blogs.
• Guest bloggers.
• Formalizing a logo.
• more interactivity with readers.

Please submit your email ID in the box to the right of this page, we'll buzz you when we come back. Thank-you for your support.

Rajesh Jain

http://www.emergic.org/: Rajesh Jain's Weblog on Emerging Technologies, Enterprises and Markets.

Rajesh is my guru who sparked the spirit of entrepreneurship in me. He is BTech in Electrical Engg from IIT Bombay, also Masters in Electrical Engg from Columbia University. He launched India's 1st ever internet portal , IndiaWorld. It was later acquired by Sify for a whopping 115 million USD. His latest venture is Novatium which is into building thin clients. I guess it is building hard-infrastructure for all the soft-tools from Google Labs. >:O)

Rajesh is a multi-faceted man, having perennial interest in emerging markets, such as mobile & affortable computing. His blog gives birth to 5~6 posts every day with opinions & excerpts from various websites & blogs. He also writes a lot about entrepreneurship.

Update #0: A more accurate description of what Rajesh is doing is here.

Sujai Karampuri

http://sujaiblog.blogspot.com/ - E=mc^2

Sujai is a NITian from Warangal. He went on to do his masters in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University. Sujai had worked in Alcatel & Sasken before to start Sloka Telecom.

Yeah! Sloka is founded by himself & another guy from Nortel to make base station boxes for the next-generation wireless networks. They plan to supply wireless infrastructure products combining WiMAX and 3G worlds, specially base stations. They are trying to commoditize them so that, deployment at a mass level becomes a viable option.

Sujai is an artist himself, has an opinion on why there is nudity in art forms. Being an atheist from age 7, writes

If God was so perfect, he wouldn't have created me - Sujai
If Man was so perfect, he wouldn't have invented me - God

If he is, how could he name his company "Sloka" Telecom, I'm just wondering!

Sujai's favourite quote is:

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality."

Does this disturb you? He goes on to say:

"Opinions are like assholes- everyone has one"! These are my opinions. They don't matter much because they do not bring any change. People live as ever - spitting, throwing garbage, cheating, bribing, but leading a moral life - not smoking, not eating meat, not visiting a prostitute.

Sujai is a fundoo dude, rational & straight. Do dig his blog. Quite interesting. May 'Sloka' be an enchanting success!

Sujai also maintains Wireless India, a blog focussing on Wireless Industry and Entrepreneurship in India.